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Python questions -> compiler and datatypes etc

Cliff Wells logiplexsoftware at earthlink.net
Thu Oct 11 13:08:57 EDT 2001 
On Wednesday 10 October 2001 18:24, Paul Rubin wrote:

> The lack of a Python
> compiler just isn't seen as an urgent problem right now.  Most users
> are content to leave Python implementation to the central Python
> developers, and the central developers are mostly concentrating on
> interpreted implementations.  And Python has a useable-enough
> native-code interface that bottlenecks in Python programs can usually
> be relieved by converting the critical parts to a C module.  That
> relieves a lot of the tension.  A Python compiler would be nice to
> have, but I can think of lots of things that are more important.

Especially since faster hardware has removed a lot of the urgency for 
generating native machine code.  

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Cliff Wells
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